SUPERNATURAL WINE CO.

Supernatural Wine Co. is a producer of certified organic, naturally vinified, low sulphur white and skin-fermented white wines from a north-facing hillside estate in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. We obtained full organic certification with BioGro New Zealand in March 2015 and commenced biodynamic farming practices in Spooklight2015. We aim to make all of our wines as naturally as possible in order to produce true terroir driven wines. We use indigenous vineyard yeasts for fermentation, all of our wines are unfined and we do not filter our skin-fermented wines.Wines are fully organically certified from March 2015. The block has an excellent history of organic farming since first plantings in 1989. With the renewed focus on organics the soil and vines are now coming naturally into balance and health with wine quality increasing as a result. The vineyard is an amazing site for viticulture. Situated in Hawke’s Bay on a north-facing hillside with slopes up to 30 degrees, soil is Matapiro sandy loam over Kidnappers Group fossiliferous sandstone overlain by carbonaceous mudstone, tephra, ignimbrite. The site has proven pedigree being in proximity to and on similar soils, slope and aspect as Te Mata Coleraine, one of New Zealand’s most accoladed vineyards. 92% of NZ’s vineyards are on flat land with alluvial gravel soils, so this soil and site produces a very distinctive wine in a New Zeal

Hayden Penny

Winemaker Hayden Penny joined Supernatural Wine Co. at the beginning of 2015. Hayden is one of a new breed of young passionate winemakers who is totally focused on organic and natural winemaking in order to truly express terroir. In 2006 Hayden graduated with a Bachelor of Viticulture and a Bachelor of Wine Science from E.I.T. Hawke’s Bay, ranking 1st and 2nd in his class respectively. After spending a year as Assistant Winemaker at award-winning Hawke’s Bay winery Te Awa, Hayden spent three years as a flying winemaker, gaining valuable experience in the Sonoma and Napa regions of California, Marlborough in New Zealand, the Yarra Valley in Australia, Toro in Spain and finally southern Bulgaria. In 2010, Hayden returned to Hawke’s Bay and helped launch William Murdoch Wines acting as Vineyard Manager and Winemaker. The wines of William Murdoch are now considered to be Hawke’s Bay’s finest, organic red wines. Hayden has been working with Supernatural Wine Co. since 2013 and helped develop our skin-fermented wines, Green Glow and Spook Light. He is a naturally gifted vigneron with a fine palate and a love of cool climate styles and he is taking our vines and wines in a fant